Realisation of a bespoke clicktrack and technical support for the performance of Kaija Saariaho's Lichtbogen with Asko|Schönberg and the Finnish dance company Tero Saarinen Company. This piece will be part of a larger production with dance and music honoring the legacy of Kaija Saariaho.

The production is set to premiere at the Holland Festival in June 2025 with subsequent performance at the Bregenzer Festspiele in July. Finnish premiere will take place in Spring 2026.

Madrid-based dance company Elephant in the black box and production company Madrid Produce asked for my assistance for their next dance/video production entitled Don Quijote en Nueva York, by Jean Philippe Dury. My work focused on motion tracking technology with the SOMI-1 sensors and integration with the Touch Designer visual coding environment.

Worked with Yannis Kyriakides and members of HIIIT to develop bespoke code that is able to process and map data received from the MYO sensors to plugins and sound processors directly inside Ableton using Max4Live.

The interface used to broadcast the data from the MYOs to a computer was built by Michele Abolaffio using Raspberry Pi and OSC protocol for the piece unmute also by Yannis Kyriakides in collaboration with choreographer Keren Levi. Michele's code can be found here.

My Max4Live devices - Ableton x Myo - were built on top of this framework. The Ableton x Myo - Connector device makes the connection with the Raspberry Pi via the OSC protocol. The Ableton x Myo - Data Processor and Mapper is used to make a simple data processor - scaling, offset, trigger mode - and the data point can be mapped to Ableton parameters directly as with other devices (like LFOs). The device doesn't output in MIDI format (yet).

The Ableton x Myo devices can be found on my GitHub.

Premiered by HIIIT on 19/09/24 at Het Nationale Theater (The Hague, NL).

Realisation of the electronics and music technology support for Oscar's orchestra piece performed by Asko|Schönberg and conducted by Mark Rundell.

Premiered on 04/09/24 at Gaudeamus Festival 2024 (Utrecht, NL) with subsequent performances in Amsterdam, Strasbourg, Den Bosch, The Hague and Groningen.

In this research project by dancer and choreographer Mireia Varón Gallofré, she wishes to explore accessibility within movement and sound performance practices. Her focus was on the experience of visually impaired people. The participants had mixed degrees of visual impairedness: from totally blind from birth to acquired partial blindness due to health issues throughout their lives.

The project consisted of several tryout and discussion sessions with volunteers-participants that Mireia was able to get in contact with through organisations that promote cultural work specifically for the visually impaired. The focus, this time, was on the use of (participative) movement technology that the participants could use. For this, she asked me to prepare code and sound that would be used in the workshops for the participants to perform with/through. MYO sensors and SOMI-1 sensors were used.

See here some documentation from the research and sessions.